Budget Christmas food gift recipes
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Tomatoes
Homemade tomato ketchup
Have a go at making homemade ketchup with our easy recipe. Packed with tomatoes, it contains less sugar and salt than shop-bought ketchup.
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Dark chocolate
Dark chocolate bark with sea salt, rosemary, pistachios and candied citrus
Take a bite out of dark chocolate bark studded with pistachios, rosemary-flavoured salt and little bursts of candied peel.
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Filo pastry
Armenian pakhlava with pomegranate syrup
Armenian pakhlava is similar to baklava. The buttery filo pastries have a sweet pomegranate syrup and are served at festive gatherings.
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Christmas chocolate
Paul A Young’s vegan chocolate truffles
These intense dark chocolate truffles (which happen to be vegan) make great food gifts - if you can resist gobbling them up yourself.
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Biscuits
Cocoa and vanilla cookies
Irina Georgescu shares her recipe for Romanian cocoa and vanilla cookies. These swirled biscuits are enjoyed with coffee or cherry liqueur.
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Peanut butter
Cinnamon spiced peanut butter
Peanut butter is a fabulous medium for all sorts of flavourings and ingredients. This warming version makes breakfast worth getting up for.
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Caramel
Sea salt caramels with grapefruit and black pepper
You don’t need expert know-how to make sweets at home. These tangy sea salt caramels are easy to prepare – and dangerously moreish.
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Plums
British plum umeboshi
Umeboshi are Japanese pickled ume plums, which give a salty-sweet-sour kick to dishes. Can't get hold of ume? Try easy British plum umeboshi.
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Easy vegan
Vegan chocolate chip oat bars
These better-for-you vegan bars are made with roasted pumpkin, oats and dark choc chips. Cut into slices ready for lunchboxes and snacks.
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Biscuits
Seeded stilton biscuits
Give cheese biscuits a festive twist with blue cheese. Our seeded stilton biscuits make the perfect Christmas nibble to serve with fizz.
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Christmas chocolate
Chocolate and pistachio tiffin
Our rich chocolate and pistachio tiffin is filled with nuts, dried fruit and biscuits and topped with a thick layer of milk chocolate.
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Christmas chocolate
Raymond Blanc’s chocolate truffles
Raymond Blanc's chocolate truffles will bring out the inner child in you and you might find you have a young, curious helper in the kitchen
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Christmas baking
Reindeer cupcakes
Get the kids into the festive spirit with a spot of Christmas baking – they'll be super proud of their reindeer cupcakes.
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Christmas gifts
Personalised tea bags
Looking for a Christmas gift with a difference? How about personalised tea bags; they'll look fabulous packed into a vintage tin and keep up to 6 months.
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Biscuits
Savoury cheese and herb biscuits
These uber cheesy, oh-so buttery cheese and herb biscuits are made with parmesan for its unique tanginess. They make a really tasty nibble – although it's impossible to stop at just one!
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Biscuits
Apricot and pistachio cantuccini
Cantuccini, otherwise known as biscotti, are a fabulously crunchy Italian biscuit great for dunking in coffee. Try our apricot and pistachio recipe...
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